Drahoslav Dinescu

Drahoslav Dinescu (14 October 1867-22 June 1948) was a Major-General of Romania, a veteran of the Balkan Wars and World War I.

Biography
Drahoslav Dinescu was born in Ploesti, Rumelia Eyalet, in the Ottoman Empire to a family of Catholic Romanians. Dinescu was raised in a middle-class Christian family that kept its wealth under the benevolent rule of the Ottoman sultans, and in 1885 he enlisted in the Romanian Army. Dinescu fought in the Second Balkan War as a Lieutenant in the Romanian 1st Army, and he accompanied the Romanians on the march to Sofia, which was free of resistance (no Romanians were lost during the war). Dinescu was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in 1915 shortly before Romania got involved in World War I. In 1916, he fought against the Imperial German Army under August von Mackensen at the start of the Romanian Campaign, and he was promoted to Major-General for his service, having been mentioned in dispatches. Dinescu was awarded the Medal of Faithful Service in 1917 for his fighting on the Macedonian Front against the Tsardom of Bulgaria, and Dinescu ended the war in Macedonia. Dinescu died on 22 June 1948 in Bucharest.